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Take Two

International raid shuts down hundreds of Darknet sites

By Take Two Staff
Published Nov 7, 2014
Logo for Silk Road anonymous marketplace.
Logo for Silk Road anonymous marketplace. The "Silk Road 2.0" website was restarted about five weeks after the government shut down the original version last year.
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International raid shuts down hundreds of Darknet sites

This week, the FBI along with Homeland Security and Europol (Europe's main law enforcement body) raided more 400 hidden web sites that traded in illegal drugs, arms and child pornography.

The sites included the illegal drug marketplace known as Silk Road 2.0, whose alleged operator, Blake Benthall, was arrested in San Francisco.

Kim Zetter, a senior staff reporter at Wired, joins Take Two for more.